The main flaw would be if you haven’t posted the notification by midnight, though it’s not a big deal to roll back claim jumps.
It just seems a a whole lot simpler to me if the notification is the official opening of free agency instead of a set time that may or may not come before you post the notification.
As for your handling of the waiver claims, looks exactly right to me. Good work.
My main concern is that I don’t want to give myself an advantage by posting the free agency is open notice and then having the first pick at a free agent. And to fix that, you could say “don’t sign any picks for a while after you’ve posted the notice”, but then that puts me at a disadvantage. I don’t think it’ll end up being a big deal, since anyone can get players they really want through waiver claims, I was just trying to do what was most fair all around. I doubt it’s ever really going to raise a problem.
We could amend the rule to say, assuming the waiver claims were posted, free agency will start at midnight - but if for some reason I haven’t posted my claims by midnight, then free agency will open after I post the claims.
Edit: What do you think we should do about people who made more claims than they plan to sign this week? For instance, should we make LOUNE’s top 13 picks his, but after that, free agents?
I don’t think it will matter after this week. Consider the volume of claims you got in the All-Pro league to be a typical week.
From what I gather, LOUNE is the only one who claimed more players than he will keep. So I suggest LOUNE simply post to the league saying when he’s done signing his guys.
That sounds like the best solution.
So how are the adds going to happen? Do you do it or are we expected to just add the guys we one ourselves on good faith?
You can go ahead and add the guys yourself. If there’s an error (someone signs a claimed guy) I can revert it. If you need me to do the rosters for you for whatever reason you can ask in the waiver claim e-mail, telling me who to dump to make room if necesary.
In future weeks, I’d suggest that you manually edit the rosters before unlocking drop/add. This would avoid confusion (having players listed as free agents that are actually unavailable), and would also allow us to know which players will be available as free agents (i.e., which players will be dropped to make room for the waiver claims). It only takes a few minutes to process each week’s claims.
I won’t be locking drop/add in the future - it becomes a pain in the ass with Thursday night games and such. I did it the first week because part of the draft rules were that you had to draft the players you started week 1 with. In the future we’ll have a non-locking waiver wire - you just need to check the “waiver claims” post before you sign any free agents.
Okey-dokey.
I would avoid those guys like the plague for two days lest you lose your waiver priority by signing somebody else’s castoffs. Yahoo will automatically kick you to the end of waiver priority if you sign somebody who was just released.
LOUNE, you took the Minnesota D. Chuck had it off waivers.
This will be a lot less confusing in the future - week one is unique in that we have a whole lot of people filling up their roster. In the future there will probably only be a few waiver claims.
I know this system seems like a pain in the ass right now, but it’s really for the best, otherwise the guy who watched the games by his computer would have all of the breakout players, or backups for injured players, etc.
I checked and neither Minnesota or Jason Witten is on waivers - they’re free agents. I wonder if it doesn’t go through the full 2 day period if you pick them up and immediately drop them.
If anyone’s waiver status got screwed up accidentally - just tell me and I can reset it.
By the way, yahoo, how hard would it be to alphabetize the add player list? FFS.
Chuck can sign the Minnesota defense, and otherwise everything looks good to me. Any problems?
At this point, other than Minnesota, everyone is a free agent. Unless I missed someone not signing their waiver claims. Go nuts.
I’m with you a thousand percent. It’s amazingly unhelpful and a massive PITA to use that stupid dropdown. Drives me batty every time.
As for Witten & Minnesota, sounds like you have it under control. Since we can’t actually see our waiver priority, (it’s only available under Commissioner tools,) you may want to just glance at his in a couple days to make sure it didn’t get bumped accidentally.
You can see waiver priority. On the main league screen, the team listing is:
Rank Team W-L-T Pct Pts Streak Waiver Moves.
By the way, as far as I can tell, everything is correct. In the future, to make things more clear, how about you specify the maximum number of waiver claims you’re willing to win, and then be required to sign the players, if won, to your roster? That’ll eliminate the “person wins more people than they plan to sign” problems.
For instance, you could have a waiver claim say “I want player 1, player 2, player 3, player 4, a maximum of 2” - so that if no one else takes them, you get 1 and 2, if someone takes 2, you get 1 and 3, etc.
You could also specify a conditional one that I’ll honor if you include all of your instructions in the e-mail. Like, say, you could say “If I can get QB1, give me him, otherwise I’ll take QB2, and then give me WR1 too” - meaning that you want one QB, and one WR, whereas if you just listed them in that order without a conditional you’d end up getting 2 QBs.
Just describe what you want clearly and I can work out the details.
Sound reasonable?
It shouldn’t be anywhere near this complicated in the following weeks - everyone’s roster is much firmer.
Sweet, thanks for the heads up.
Is everyone okay with the waiver idea where you can list as many players as you want, but you must state how many you’re willing to sign, and then be required to sign them? You can also make conditional claim, just say what you want and I’ll carry it out.
Yahoo’s fantasy matchup screen has some funny errors and advice that doesn’t seem to make that much sense sometimes.
(Chi - DEF) ***** Excellent chanced to tee off vs. struggling QB Losman.
Losman apparently sucks so much that he’s going to throw picks in a game he’s not even playing in.
Randy Moss (NE - WR) ***** Pats will likely attack with the pass and SF corners are beatable.
That’s probably just a typo though.
Then they’ll often give 3 star ratings to things they consider bad matchups.
Edit: Oh, and:
Chad Johnson @ Cle ***** Browns got lit up by Steeler passing game last week so what do you think?
It isn’t accurate to say that they were “lit up” - went like 13/27 for 160 yards or something. He did score a lot of TDs, which is what they’re referring to I’m sure, but 3 of those came on starting drives that started in the red zone or close to it because the Cleveland offense pulled a keystone cops routine.
Leigh Bodden, when healthy, owns Chad Johnson. When Chad was doing his “who covered 85?” checklist in 2005, Leigh Bodden was, IIRC, the only guy to get a “yes” checked next to him. Unfortunately he’s never healthy anymore, including a mysterious groin injury this week. Still, Houshmanzadeh against a rookie corner is a much better matchup.
Sometimes there’s good info though, like
Donovan McNabb **** Has a long history of success vs. Redskins and Eagle offense usually breaks them down.
Don’t know a whole lot about the NFC east and for some reason I find the redskins to be the most boring team in the NFL, so I never watch them.
Speaking of which, tough call between McNabb and Kitna this week. Minnesota’s pass defense is a mystery because Atlanta didn’t give them a serious test, although I think their run defense is going to be for real, so I suspect the Lions might throw 40+ passes that game. Leaning towards Kitna for that reason. I’m considering starting Calvin Johnson over Anquan Boldin for that reason too.
Starting Adrian Peterson this week - Chester Taylor has been limited with a minor injury, and it’s against Detroit, so I could see a big day here. Other spot is MJD against Atlanta.
Anyone else got some tough matchup choices this week?
Of course I have crazy matchups. Look at my receivers and defense.
Looking at LOUNE’s roster now that he has a full team, I’m pretty sure his strategy isn’t going to pay off. He has decent depth (i.e. non-catastrophic for bye-week purposes) at RB and QB, but his TE and WRs are teh suck, and I still think he made a big mistake in making Shaun Alexander the third wheel in his mega-tricycle. He would’ve been better off going for LJ, Addai, or Gore – or perhaps getting a 2nd-tier RB for $35-$45, and spending the last $10-$20 on some of the insane WR bargains at the end of the draft.
While I agree it would’ve been much better if he saved $20 for the end to fill up his roster with insane bargains, he still has a good chance. His current roster is as capable of putting up a big game as anyone, but consistency and depth will be a problem. If any of his mega-tricycle, as you say, gets hurt, he’s got problems. SA will be the most likely and the least problematic, but his depth dries up fast.
Oh I mentioned this on my other FF thread, but not this one.
Before the games start, on the matchups screen, there’s a “vote” button under each player - you make your prediction as to what team will win and it’s recorded and who voted for who is revealed later. It’s just a novelty so it’s no big deal, but it’s fun to see who can pick the surprise upset and so I encourage people to use it.
I went for Alexander because I’m high on him this year. I like Addai (a bunch), but I think Alexander will have the better year. Larry Johnson, I liked, but he lost two important members of his line. I’m not sold on Gore one bit. Also, compared to Addai, I think Alexander flies a little under the radar and is better “value”.
Receivers are a dime a dozen. I’ll prove that this year. Same with tight ends. I may dispose of the tight end situation like I have in other leagues and keep on trucking.
Yes, I am actually successful at this stuff, too.